Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers · Kentucky

Cincinnati Branch

Independence, KY · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cincinnati Branch runs at 778% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Cincinnati Branch: 17.1 TCR = 778% of Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cincinnati Branch safety composite

Cincinnati Branch scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 22.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Cincinnati Branch: 8.2 → 26.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 26.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.33× in 2017

Cincinnati Branch's TCR rose 17.8 from 8.2 in 2016 to 26.0 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423310 · Independence, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.1 · 778% of ind

  • DART 22.8 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO Gator - Orlando
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gator - Orlando (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cincinnati Branch in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Cincinnati Branch averages 17.1 TCR (778% of the Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Cincinnati Branch TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=26 · BLS 2.2

Where Cincinnati Branch falls in its industry

1,225 Building board (e.g., fiber, f establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Building board (e.g., fiber, f employers in Kentucky.

Cincinnati Branch (35 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 020406080100120 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Cincinnati Branch
Cincinnati Branch (35 employees, TCR 17.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Cincinnati Branch has fewer employees than the Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, part median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2017 26.0 22.8 8 0 0
2016 8.2 2.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423310 · KY · Independence

1,225 Building board (e.g., fiber, flake, particle) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 26 employers in Independence, KY · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Gator - Orlando 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamco Supply - Glens Falls, NY 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triangle Building Products Corp. 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR MacDonald & Owen Brookville 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Homestead Family Farms 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Castleton Lyons, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hermitage Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coldiron Office- Magnum Hunter Production 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-NOKY 1,431 FTE
CITY-NEAR 406 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR 491-DC001 357 FTE
CITY-NEAR 014-00475 318 FTE
NAT-TCR Jones Meats 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Fort Lauderdale 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02065 17.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Peak Resources-Pinelake 17.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3620 Sws of Ga-Brunswick 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fairfield Inn & Suites 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Harborview 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE House of Color, Inc. 35 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.